Three percent of 10,403 adults with COVID-19 pneumonia were diagnosed as having new-onset dementia after a median of 182 days, a significantly higher proportion than that observed with other types of pneumonia, finds a study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
An analysis conducted at hospitals in Michigan found that the more antibiotic stewardship strategies a hospital reported, the lower its overuse of antibiotics at discharge, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Missed measles vaccinations and eroded surveillance during COVID-19 are setting up a perfect storm.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday sent a Health Alert Network notice to health providers warning that cases of measles and mumps have been detected in people recently evacuated from Afghanistan.
A review and meta-analysis of point-prevalence surveys conducted in Asia over the past two decades found concerning levels of resistance to first-line and last-resort antibiotics in foodborne pathogens isolated from aquatic animals, researchers reported late last week in Nature Communications.
A point-prevalence study (PPS) conducted in six Indonesian hospitals found a high rate of empirical use of broad spectrum antibiotics, researchers reported today in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance.
Only 62.4% of 16-month-old US children received the MMR vaccine from June to August, down from 72.0% before the pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that worldwide measles deaths climbed 50% from 2016 to 2019, to an estimated 207,500 fatalities in 2019 alone, and cases that year rose to 869,770—the highest total in 23 years.
The use of point-of-care C-reactive protein (CRP) tests in primary care practices reduced the odds of prescribing antibiotics for cough by 21%, a non-significant but clinically relevant reduction, researchers reported yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 62 studies has found that immunity conferred by the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine fades each subsequent year, suggesting that vaccination strategies should be revisited.
